The Effect of Jealousy on Cyber Dating Violence in People Who Have A Long Distance Relationship

The purpose of this research is to study the role of jealousy that can increase emergence of cyber dating violence behavior through electronic devices by individuals who undergoing long distance dating relationship with their dating partner . The subjects of this study is 166 individuals who had or undergoing long distance relationship with their romantic dating partner. This research use quantitative research with simple regression test. Measuring instruments used in this study include cyber dating abuse questionaire owned by Borrajo (2015) and Multidimensional Jealousy owned by Pfeiffer and Wong (1989). The results of this study showed that jealousy has a significant role that can increase emergence of cyber dating violence and behavioral jealousy has influence with effective contributions of 22.6% on the occurrence of cyber dating violence (R2 = 0.226; p = 0.000).Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui peran tingkat kecemburuan yang dapat mempengaruhi munculnya kekerasan dalam berpacaran melalui alat elektronik oleh individu yang sedang menjalani long distance relationship. Subjek penelitian berjumlah 166 individu yang pernah menjalani hubungan jarak jauh. Hasil penelitian kuantitatif ini diuji dengan uji regresi sederhana. Alat ukur yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini antara lain Cyber Dating Abuse Questionnaire (Borrajo, 2015) dan Multidimensional Jealousy (Pfeiffer & Wong, 1989). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa adanya pengaruh signifikan dari jealousy terhadap munculnya perilaku cyber dating violence. Dimensi  behavioral jealousy memiliki pengaruh dengan sumbangan efektif sebesar 22.6% terhadap terjadinya cyber dating violence (R2 = 0,226; p=0,000)